Past Award Winners

Sustainable Laboratories Awards Program

Go Beyond Awards

Sustainable Purchasing

Sustainable Laboratories Awards Program

2022 Sustainable Laboratories Awards

Phil Wirdzek Leadership Awards

  • Phil Wirdzek Leadership Award: Dan Doyle, Grumman/Butkus Associates
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Otto Van Geet, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
  • Emerging Leaders Award:Christine Alencar, University of Virginia
  • Emerging Leaders Award: Christina Greever, My Green Lab, and Star Scott, University of Georgia

Lab Buildings or Projects Awards

  • New Construction
    • Sustainable Laboratory Award: The Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences ∓ Engineering Education Facility
    • Sustainable Laboratory Award: The Merck Research Laboratory in South San Francisco
    • Excellence in Decarbonization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Integrative Genomics Building
    • Excellence in Climate Resiliency: Webster University, Interdisciplinary Science Building
    • Excellence in Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Diversion: Wanhua Global Research Center
  • Renovation/Retrofit
    • Excellence in Energy Efficiency: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champgain Materials Research Laboratory Renovation
    • Excellence in Energy and Water Efficiency: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab Renovation
  • Adaptive Reuse
    • Excellence in Adaptive Resuse: o2h co-work labs

Programs or Initiatives Awards

2009 Go Beyond Awards

2008 Go Beyond Awards

Sustainable Purchasing

The opportunity to reduce the environmental impact of laboratories through sustainable procurement is enormous. The International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) recognizes institutions that have demonstrated initiative or progress in sustainable procurement through the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Award. Nominations were open to any institution (such as universities, government, and nonprofit organizations) with laboratory facilities that met one or more of the following criteria:

  • The institution actively encouraged sustainable procurement in laboratories at multiple levels (e.g. staff, scientists, administration).
  • The institution reached out to suppliers to request information about the environmental impact of products and packaging.
  • The institution made a commitment to promoting and purchasing ACT labeled products and/or requested ACT label adoption by suppliers.

Institutions were recognized in two categories in 2019:

  1. Improvement: Institutions that have made substantial progress on the above criteria (this category includes past recognees).
  2. Initiative: Institutions that have demonstrated motivation to in some way meet the above criteria (this category excludes past recognees).

I2SL also continued to recognize manufacturers that offered ACT-labeled products in 2019.

2019 Recognees

I2SL honored the following institutions for taking initiative in sustainable purchasing in 2019:

  • National Institutes of Health Liver Diseases Branch
  • University of Birmingham

I2SL honored the following institutions for improving sustainable purchasing in 2019:

  • Harvard University
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • University of Georgia
  • University of Virginia

The following manufacturers obtained the ACT label in 2019:

  • Labcon
  • Chart
  • Miele
  • Micronic
  • Stirling Ultracold

The following manufacturers obtained the ACT label in 2018 and expanded their ACT-labeled inventory in 2019:

  • Eppendorf
  • MilliporeSigma
  • Priorclave North America
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific

2018 Recognees

The 2018 I2SL Annual Conference Go Beyond Awards Luncheon featured a new set of awards recognizing manufacturers which are participating in My Green Lab’s ACT Label effort, as well as institutions that have begun to implement procedures to purchase environmentally preferable laboratory products. “ACT” stands for Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency, and the ACT label is like an eco-nutrition label for laboratory products.

The following manufacturers obtained the ACT label in 2018:

  • CoolLED
  • Eppendorf
  • MilliporeSigma
  • Priorclave North America
  • Thermo Scientific Nalgene

The following institutions were recognized for their purchasing efforts in 2018:

  • Cleveland Clinic
  • Duke University
  • Emory University
  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of California, Office of the President
  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Georgia
  • University of Virginia